illicit-isolation

Flashcards to review vocabulary words and definitions from lecture notes.

Illicit

Something illegal or disapproved of by society.

Illiteracy

A lack of the ability to read and write.

Illiterate

Someone who is unable to read and write.

Illogical

Someone or something that lacks sense or clear, sound reasoning.

Immigrate

To come to live permanently in a foreign country.

Impaired

Diminished, damaged, or weakened.

Impediment

Something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible.

Impending

Occurring or likely to occur soon

Imperious

Marked by arrogant assurance

Impervious

Not allowing entrance or passage

Implement

Carry out, accomplish

Implied

Suggested or understood without being directly expressed.

Imply

To indicate the truth or existence of something by suggestion.

Incidence

The rate or range of occurrence or influence of something, especially of something unwanted

Indifference

The lack of interest in someone or something.

Indigent

Having no money or anything else of value.

Inefficacy

The failure to produce the desired effect.

Inexorable

Not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped

Infection

The state produced by the establishment of one or more pathogenic agents in or on the body of a suitable host

Infer

To deduce or conclude something from evidence and reasoning.

Inferior

Situated below some other organ

Inflamed

To kindle or excite

Influx

Act of flowing in

Ingest

To take, as food, into the body

Initiated

To cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going

Inoculation

The action of giving someone a weak form of disease as a protection against it.

Insidious

Having a gradual and cumulative effect

Intact

Not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched

Internal

Existing or situated within the limits or surface of something

Intubate

To insert a tube into an orifice or hollow organ, as the larynx, for the administration of gases or to admit air.

Invalid

A person who is ill or injured for a long time and usually has to be cared for by others.

Invasive

The ability to infiltrate surrounding healthy tissue or to spread from a localized area throughout the body

Irreproachable

Without fault and therefore impossible to criticize.

Isolation

The condition of being alone, especially when this makes someone feel unhappy.